Two graphical #illustrations I did to try something different, working with quotes. First iem I made text in #Blender.

#art #fire #proverb

We define ourselves by our opposition. When conflict, challenge, or even nuisance disappears entirely, something in us goes purposeless. Loneliness and rele...

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https://promptedwisdom.com/proverb/even-the-scarecrow-gets-lonely-when-the-crows

☞ Bellum se ipsum alet.
☞ War feeds itself.
— Cato Marcus Porcius ("the Elder") 234–149 BC

nasty #proverb

True silence — not absence of noise, but stillness of the restless self — is something most people spend a lifetime failing to achieve.

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https://promptedwisdom.com/proverb/silence-is-the-oldest-language-and-the-hardest

"No seed ever sees the flower."

– A Zen proverb

Daily #Zen #Buddhism #proverb #Aproverb

Plans, theories, and representations of reality always diverge from reality itself. Neither is wrong — they're just different kinds of truth, and wisdom means know...

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https://promptedwisdom.com/proverb/the-map-and-the-road-have-never-agreed

To act with purpose without being burdened by the weight of what you carry. Grief and labor need not occupy the same moment.

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https://promptedwisdom.com/proverb/the-river-does-not-mourn-the-stone-it-2

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“Your future is created by what you do today.”

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#writingcommunity #Proverb

Infrastructure is useless without engagement. Technology amplifies human capacity — it cannot substitute for attention, curiosity, or genuine effort.

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https://promptedwisdom.com/proverb/even-the-sharpest-wi-fi-signal-cannot-connect-a

Progress requires letting go. To grieve every loss is to cease moving — and a river that stops is no longer a river.

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https://promptedwisdom.com/proverb/the-river-does-not-mourn-the-stones-it

Independence, even when uncomfortable, beats dependence on another's generosity — which can be withdrawn.

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https://promptedwisdom.com/proverb/better-a-cold-hearth-you-own-than-a

Sorrow changes everything — meals, mornings, the taste of ordinary life. But life still asks to be lived. You endure not by escaping grief but by eating alongside it.

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https://promptedwisdom.com/proverb/grief-salts-the-bread-eat-it-anyway

Understanding the world and being protected from it are entirely different things. Wisdom maps the darkness — it does not dissolve it.

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https://promptedwisdom.com/proverb/she-who-maps-the-stars-still-sleeps-beneath

"A little learning is a dangerous thing".

— Alexander Pope
(British Poet & Literary Critic)

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Familiarity with risk does not eliminate it. Even experts bleed.

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https://promptedwisdom.com/proverb/even-the-beekeeper-gets-stung

Endings disappoint; it's the middle — full of possibility and unresolved tension — where all the joy actually lives. Finishing things is overrated.

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https://promptedwisdom.com/proverb/the-show-is-always-better-before-you-finish

Resistance to the immovable exhausts you without changing anything. Wisdom lies in adaptation — finding the way around, not through, what cannot be moved.

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https://promptedwisdom.com/proverb/the-river-that-argues-with-the-stone-grows

#Miscellanea from the #Archives at theotherpages.org
#Random things from the #collection
photos by Steve Spanoudis
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There is a deep and often invisible gap between knowing something in theory and knowing it through lived experience. The map is never the territory.

#proverb #wisdom #dailyproverb #promptedwisdom #aiart
https://promptedwisdom.com/proverb/he-who-maps-the-coast-has-never-felt